My First Monthly Blog Income Report and Traffic Breakdown – $51

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Let’s be frank for a second…

I do NOT enjoy looking at other bloggers’ monthly blog income reports. Not even a little bit.

For most of them (not all), it’s just a “hey look how successful I am blogging part-time from home! You could do the same thing with my free blogging course here!!!1! and make sure to use Bluehost!”

Am I right?

Why I’m publishing ALL my stats (not just income):

Do You Even Blog is a business.

I treat it like a business…and businesses publish monthly financial reports.

I should know. I used to be an accountant 🙂

In fact, the purpose of DYEB is to be an open book for income-seeking bloggers…whether it’s through the podcast, instructional YouTube videos, or blog stat breakdowns. I want to show you how to start a grow a blog.

You need to see the process of how I grow my blog…not just large gross revenue numbers and affiliate links.

Did I reach my goals last month?

Get 250 podcast downloads – Yes! (508)

doubled my goal!

Launching a podcast can be difficult, especially when you have NO existing audience.

Truth is…I had no idea what to expect, but I’m thrilled with the results! 500+ downloads. Yay!

Get at least 1 “rockstar” podcast guest – Yes!

Honestly, all my guests so far have been rockstars…but I was particularly thrilled when Nick Loper agreed to come on. He was a delight.

Spoiler alert:this week’s guest is one of the most successful online marketers of all time (says President Obama and the United Nations. Literally)

oh hi Neilthat guy is legit

Make money in month 1 – Yes! ($51)

$51 in month 1? I’ll take it.

So, my original plan was to be all hipster-like and publish my first monthly income report with $zero earned.

Then I thought…

Wouldn’t it be clever of me to go ahead and make my first dollar?

So I did.

See details on how I did this below.

Get 1,000 Twitter followers – Fail (509)

This was arbitrary goal I set for myself in month 1. I didn’t think to much about it, and didn’t really hustle for a following.

Another truth: I kinda don’t enjoy Twitter anyways.

June Blog Traffic and Stat Breakdown

Note: I didn’t have traffic or email list goals at all.

Launching a new blog often results in super low traffic numbers, even for experienced bloggers.

That said, I’m satisfied with these results.

Website traffic: 929

June 2017 blog traffic

Biggest source of traffic in June:

When I interviewed Physician on Fire, he featured me on his weekly roundup post! Other than that, traffic was from Twitter.

and apparently a few organic searches somehow??

Email List Growth: +327

I am SUPER happy with this in month 1. This is with ZERO popups, ZERO content upgrades.

Reader Interactions

Comments

So this is really a much better income report than most other blogs have! No bragging, no advertisig for courses and Bluehost ?.

So to answer your questions:
– I guess you already know it, but I’m a huge fan of this podcast. So you are doing incredibly well! I like the guests and you are improving with every episode. I like how you use these short breaks (forget the name again) now. Also these key takeaways are brilliant!
– Favorite part: The great and influential guests you have!
– Who to interview next: Difficult question as you’ve already interviewed most of my favorites. I think more bloggers outside of PF would be great. I would also like to hear you interview Ramit Sethi and Jonathan Levi. The later has build a great number of online courses and systems.
– Blog URL: Well still building my website but started to create the content for the pages yesterday. http://www.budgetlikeasir.com

Congratulations on money. I haven’t tried to make any money on my blog yet. Maybe I need to view it more as a business like you. I’m doing it for fun right now because I just love creating content. I’m interested in your house and maybe I’ll try some revenue in the future. Thanks for posting your journey so I can learn.

Awesome writeup! I’m in my first month as well and definitely will be following some of your strategies. #1 will be getting my email signup up and running. An email list of 327 subscribers in the first month is truly impressive!

Keep up the good work. Looking forward to subscribing and following along.

Keep up the great work Pete. I’m loving the podcast. I bet you could sell a course on how you got the sickest lineup of your first six guests. That is a who’s who of blogging, marketing and side hustling. I’ve enjoyed every single one so far. Thanks for letting me have the honor of being your first sponsor!

Re: course -> Not sure I have the following just yet to launch a full-scale course (planning on Nov-Dec launch for something)…BUT…I am currently working on a guest post for Eden Fried (http://edenfried.com/) that details EXACTLY the process I’ve used for outreach.

It’s gonna be a good one, and will probably drop mid-August. If you’re on the email list, I’ll be promoting when it releases 🙂

Thanks again for the kind words Tom. I really do appreciate it (as well as your 100 cents!)

Great first month Pete! I want to take a stab at Michelle’s course too, maybe in winter.

I think I got one message from you about sponsorship and I had no idea what that meant. I think if you reach out again, it’s better to pretend like you’re talking to a noob about how any of it works because I was like… what’s going on?

Great first month! After seeing your guest post on Millennial Money Man, I just assumed you had been a blogging pro for awhile! You’ve got some super content here – I’m definitely gonna take advantage.

Love your content so far. I am a new and starting entrepreneur getting into the printables field. I am thinking of opening a blog along with my storefront. I have opened my storefront but no blog.:( It’s called that thing “content.” I am like all over the place with the content. Saw yours and read the whole thing. Your font that you chose took me under the boat. (good way.) I found your content real enticing to read more. Then you topped it off with your monthly earnings and that. Which was really good expressing yourself. I figured by switching it up between a storefront and reading some articles before you shopped was a good idea. Just don’t know what people want to read honestly. Then it’s kind of hard to look up other bloggers to kind of find out what content is out there. Anyways, good read.